Types of Word Play
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Examples
Pun
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37
62
"I had not cried the mouse sharply and very angerly a knot" cried alice
the mouses tale/tail
just think what work it would make with the day and night! You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis"said Alice; the Duchess replies "Talking of axes chop off her head."
Repetition
72
62
97
"twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle"
duchess song (chorus)
would not could not would not could not would not join the dance. would not could not would not could not would not join the dance .
Syntax
69 (3)

21
"I breathe when i sleep, i sleep when i breathe
i like what i get, i get what i like
i see what i eat, i eat what i see"
" And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, "Do cates eat bats? Do cats eat bats?" and sometimes " Do bats eat cats?" for, you see, she couldn't answer eaither question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.
Diction
28
55
59
"Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day!"
serpent! screamed the pigeon i'm not a serpent! said Alice indignantly Let me alone!
how am i to get in?
Personification
71 (2)

48
"i dare say have you never even spoke to time
if you knew Time as well as i do you wouldent talk about wasting it its him"
a large blue caterpiller that was sitting with his arms crossed quietly smoking a long hookah
Lexicon
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42
86
curiouser and curiouser
it was much more pleasanter at home, thought poor alice
tut, tut child
Alliteration
75

70

58
that begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness you knowyou say things are much of a muchness.
i told you butter wouldent suit the works! he added looking angerly at the march hare it was the best butter the march hare meekly replied.
Pig and Pepper
Assonance
62
73

66
speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases
"Once apon a time there three little sisters,' the Dormouse began in a great hurry; '' and their names were Elise, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well-''
did you say pig or fig